Can't get ORBX Proxies to work

[pegot]

I load an ORBX Proxy but can not get it to work either in 2020.1 RC2 or 2019.15. Is their some other steps I need to take that is different from earlier versions? All I used to do was load the ORBX into the tab in Octane Properties. That still works for me in 2019.1.4 / 18.6 (for Blender 2.79a). I can not get it to work in any of the Belnder 2.8 releases.

Is this feature supposed to be working?

[pegot]

Can any dev respond to this, or do I need to submit a help ticket?

Thanks.

[J.C]

Can any dev respond to this, or do I need to submit a help ticket?

Thanks.

Can you share the ORBX file that is not working? I've tested mine and it is working fine with latest release.

[pegot]

See attached zip.

Only the version from 2019.1.4-18.6 for Blender 2.79b works on my system. The newer ones for Blender 2.8 don’t. They just render my Proxy box as is. I even tried changing all the Mesh types to no avail. I’m thinking it has to be something strange with my system.

The ORBX was created with Octane Stand Alone 2019.5. I included the OCS for that as well - just a very simple test scene.

Thanks for checking on your end!

[grimm]

You are using a Geometric primitive, but I'm not sure that the Blender plugin supports those yet?

[J.C]

It's not working on my side too. I think it's because of the geometry primitive. Scenes with regular meshes should work. In C4d plugin this works so I guess Blender plugin has something missing in that matter.

[pegot]

I will try with other no primitive geometry. But it works fine in the older Blender 2.79a under 2019.1.4 / 18.6.

I think I will also post this in the bugs section now - thanks for testing.

[pegot]

I can confirm it works as long as non-primitives are used in the ORBX export. This limitation currently doesn't exist in the pre Blender 2.8 builds so I hope it can be fixed soon. I have a lot of more complex scenes that hare made up of lots of primitives.

[pegot]

Upon further investigation I have found the following:

Proxy feature in latest Octane Blender builds for Blender 2.8 will fail if a PLACEMENT node is used. This of course prevents us from exporting as a proxy any transforms or animations done in Stand Alone. It also limits the complexity of the scenes that can be exported - pretty much limiting it to single objects

Neither of these limitations ever existed in Octane Blender for Blender 2.79.

[linograndiotoy]

We'll fix this in the next builds.